Save with Azure reservations

Learn how Azure Reservations help you save money by committing to one-year or three-year plans. Plans are for virtual machines and Azure Blob storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. They're also available for SQL Database compute capacity, Azure Cosmos DB throughput, and other Azure resources.

Buy reservations

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• What are Azure reservations?
• Reservation purchase recommendations
• Instance size flexibility
• Windows and SQL software cost charged separately

How-To Guide

• Buy a reservation
• Renew reservations

Learn how discounts are applied

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• How a reservation discount is applied

Training

• Save money with Azure reserved instances

Manage reservations after purchase

How-To Guide

• Permissions to view and manage reservations
• Change reservation scope, split, and merge
• Exchange and refund reservations
• Changes to the reservation exchange policy

Report costs after purchase

How-To Guide

• Charge back Azure Reservation costs
• View reservation purchase and refund transactions

Reference

• Reservation APIs

Limited-time offers

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• US West Dv3 VMs
• Sweden Central - select Linux VMs
• Poland Central - select VMs
• Poland Central SQL Services